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Glenn Adamson's last book, Thinking Through Craft, offered an influential account of craft's position within modern and contemporary art. Now, in his engaging sequel, The Invention of Craft, his theoretical discussion of skilled work is extended back in time and across numerous disciplines.
Adamson searches out the origins of modern craft, locating its emergence in the period of the industrial revolution. He demonstrates how craft was invented as industry's 'other', a necessary counterpart to ideas of progress and upheaval. In the process, the magical and secretive culture of artisans was gradually dominated through division and explication. This left craft with an oppositional stance, a traditional or anti-modern position.
The Invention of Craft ranges widely across media, from lock-making, wood-carving and iron-casting to fashion, architecture and design. It also moves back and forth between periods, from the 18th century to the present day, demonstrating how contemporary practice can be informed through the study of modern craft in its moment of invention.
Adamson searches out the origins of modern craft, locating its emergence in the period of the industrial revolution. He demonstrates how craft was invented as industry's 'other', a necessary counterpart to ideas of progress and upheaval. In the process, the magical and secretive culture of artisans was gradually dominated through division and explication. This left craft with an oppositional stance, a traditional or anti-modern position.
The Invention of Craft ranges widely across media, from lock-making, wood-carving and iron-casting to fashion, architecture and design. It also moves back and forth between periods, from the 18th century to the present day, demonstrating how contemporary practice can be informed through the study of modern craft in its moment of invention.
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'Once again, Glenn Adamson has proven adept at pinpointing the hot-button issues in modern craft. The Invention of Craft takes historical ideas about craft that have been canonized in craft scholarship and turns them on their head. His controversial assertions and excellent examples will have scholars and makers buzzing for years.' -- Sandra Alfoldy, Nova Scotia College Of Art & Design
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Glenn Adamson is Head of Graduate Studies and Deputy Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is also author of The Craft Reader (Berg, 2009) and Thinking Through Craft (Berg, 2007).
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- PublisherBloomsbury Academic
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0857850644
- ISBN 13 9780857850645
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover copy. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Craft's reputation is as something eternal. It has always been with us, it seems, since the first pots were made from clay dug out of riverbeds and the first simple baskets were plaited by hand. Seen from this perspective, craft is intrinsic to what it is to be human. In modern times, though, it seems to be under constant assault. Its steady disappearance, in the face of the more powerful and efficient forms of production that we call "industry," is therefore to be understood as a tide of depersonalization. We must try to turn the clock back, to revive craft's organic role in society, or at least slow the pace of its vanishing. That is the usual way of looking at things. But this book is going to tell the story rather differently. Rather than treating craft as an ever-present aspect of human behavior increas- ingly threatened by technological advances. I argue that craft is itself a modern invention. It is customary to speak of the century from 1750 to 1850 as the time of the "industrial rev. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM354-VG-8522
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